Mikalai Biblis

sentenced to 8 1/2 years of imprisonment

Prisoner

Date of birth: 7 January 1997

Date of detention: 2 July 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
  • Art. 218 of the Criminal Code — Intentional destruction or damage to property committed in a generally dangerous manner or causing damage on a large scale
  • Art. 130 of the Criminal Code — Incitement to hatred
  • Art. 359 of the Criminal Code — Terrorist act against a state official or public figure
  • Art. 290 of the Criminal Code — Threat to commit an act of terrorism

Sentence: 8 1/2 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony

Prison sentence start date: 29 March 2023

Judge: Anastasiya Papko

Prosecutor: Yuliya Laneuskaya

Prison: Penal colony No. 1

Cases: Flying Storks case

Godparent: Katharina Prelicz-Huberl, Member of the Swiss National Council

On the list of “terrorists” (Money transfers are prohibited)

Mikalai Biblis is a defendant in the high-profile Flying Storks case. Judge Anastasiya Papko sentenced him to eight and a half years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony.

Other defendants in this case were Aliaksei Ivanisau, Aliaksei Hameza, Aliaksandr Murauyou, Andrei Budai, and Aliaksandr Sidarenka.

Depending on the role of each of them they were charged in different permutations with:

  • participation in actions that grossly violate the public order (part 1 of article 342 of the CC)
  • participation in a terrorist organization (part 2 of article 290-4 of the CC)
  • act of terrorism against a state official (part 1 of article 359 of the CC)
  • intentional damage to property (part 1 of article 218 of the CC)
  • incitement of hatreed (part 3 of article 130 of the CC)
  • calls for sanctions (part 3 of article 361 of the CC)

On November 30, 2021, the Supreme Court declared the association Supraciŭ (Bel. ‘Resistance’) and its subdivisions including Busly liaciać (bel. ‘Flying Storks’) initiative terrorist.

 
 
 
 
Mail address: Penal colony No. 1. 211440, Navapolack, vulica Techničnaya 8

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